Bored with the usual dull beers? Try Excalibur

[MD]

Maybe it's the years catching up but I must confess I find drinking beer..well, bloody boring these days.

So I've been sampling the odd and weird imported brands gathering dust on the local supermarket shelves.

Having lived in London way back and spent many a night pissed as, stumbling home on the tube, thanks to great beers with that incredient sadly missing in NZ...taste! I have a soft spot for British ales.

So my latest fav is Excalibur from Suffolk at 8.5% alcohol content it has a decent kick. Some UK/European brands on the shelf are up to 10% but failed the taste test.

Anyway I'm happily drinking one now which is why I have no idea why I'm posting this and how to end this &%$îng sentence.

[Danae]

Try pirate beer

[MD]

Yeah I tried Pirate. Not bad, was that the 10 percenter?

[Danae]

Yeah I tried Pirate. Not bad, was that the 10 percenter?

That stuff is nasty XD An experience, but nasty. Not sure, but it has a picture of a pirate on the front.

[98tls]

Will give it a go.Like you a little bored so tried some Cider bought at the supermarket,Monteiths crushed apple cider,only 4.5 % but very nice.

[James Deuce]

Or Emerson's. Or Taa Kawa.

[slofox]

We specialise in unusual beers...

[James Deuce]

We specialise in unusual beers...
I'm not buying from you, you're sick!

[MD]

Or Emerson's. Or Taa Kawa.

Thanks Jim I'll keep an eye out and try them. Basically I'm just working my way through whatever 'different' offshore brands I spot for a bit of variety. and as I said...taste = a drink you actually enjoy swallowing.

[Blackshear]

Beers are for adding to pizza dough, if you don't have any yeast :oi-grr:

[vifferman]

I'm not buying from you, you're sick!
I would, just coz I like the crazy new avatar. (I like crazy beers too.)
I was going to visit you last time I was in the 'tron, but I took a wrong turning.

[Fatt Max]

We specialise in unusual beers...

Mint, I'll be there on Thursday....

[koba]

Yeah I tried Pirate. Not bad, was that the 10 percenter?

Crest.

Pirateis 8 or 8.5 like excalibur.

Gordons gold is another tenner and they do platinum at 12%.

I love the crest very much. One is great for "A few beers" 2 gets you pissed and three gets you rooted; easy maths, easy to carry on the bike and tastes OK.

[boostin]

Epic Pale Ale or Epic Armageddon.

[Gubb]

Excalibur tastes like coffee grounds and rotten lemons. I couldn't finish one can, so I gave it to Blanket Man, and even he didn't look too impressed.

Try Chimay, or if you really like the storng ones, Elephant FTW!

[SMOKEU]

Fuck paying for beer. Homebrew rules.

[ready4whatever]

Anybody tried Mata beer made from the BOP? I find the feijoa flavour bloody good

[slofox]

NZ Boutique beers: Emersons, Three Boys, Renaissance, Wigram, Tuatara, Moa, Dux

Belgian: Rochefort 8, Rochefort 10, Chimay, Duvel, Leffe, Maredsous, Nostradamus, Westmalle, Timmermans lambics.

UK: Fullers range, Wychwood range, some Greene King, some Marstons...

Other: Coopers range (Aus), various Austrian brews....several others from time to time.

All good beers with a wide spread of flavour profiles. Most of these put the local commercial swill to shame.

The big boys lost the plot many many years ago and have still to find it again. Their brewing philosophy is ruled by the beancounters who care not a jot for quality - just money. They work on quantity sales and therefore produce the least offensive product they can at the cheapest price. They promote over-consumption in order to maximise their profits. They go out and get bogus copyrights covering generic terms (Radler springs to mind) and then use it to threaten tiny little microbreweries like Green Man who dare to produce a style that conforms to the generic description. Big money bully boys is what they are. Bastards. Fuckem.

Microbrews rule...:apint:

[The Pastor]

Try pirate beer

Green bling for you!


That stuff is nasty XD An experience, but nasty. Not sure, but it has a picture of a pirate on the front.

OI DO NOT SPEAK ILL OF THE BEER OF PIRATES. NOW I WANT MY GREEN BACK YOU FILTHY BLASPHEMER!

Pirate beer is best served 50/50 with captian morgons.

[CookMySock]

Maybe it's the years catching up but I must confess I find drinking beer..well, bloody boring these days.Have a wee toke instead. :shifty:

Steve

[SPman]

Mmmmmmmm.....beer!

Mikkeller from Denmark.......Nøgne Ø,- strange but rather moresome, Nelson Sauvin Single Hop IPA is very pleasant, and Black Hole - a 13% Imperial Stout - thick, syrupy and coffee chocolatey in taste......sort of combining 2 in 1.

American beers, IPA's and Double IPA's - oh yes - virtually anything by Stone, Russian River or Dogfish breweries, espec. Ruination Ale, or Pliny The Elder!

If you can find any out this neck of the woods, of course.........

[oldrider]

Tried a few glasses of "Spieghts Summit" lager the other night with a meal, really enjoyed it too!

May not be a new beer but it was to me, nice! :drinkup:

[bungbung]

Look for the coupon in the Capital Times, valid for one free Tuatara at the Malthouse until 7/10 (for you Wellingtonians)

[peasea]

Regardless of brand the best tasting beer is paid for by someone other than yourself.